Crude has climbed 10% so far this week, with US crude futures jumping 0.9% on Friday to above $53 per barrel.

7:46 a.m. ET, January 11, 2019

Brexit delay report triggers wild swing in pound-dollar

From CNN Business' Ivana Kottasová

The British pound briefly jumped as much as 0.5% to above $1.28 after the Evening Standard newspaper said Brexit could be delayed.

The London newspaper, which is edited by former UK treasury chief George Osborne, cited UK cabinet ministers as the source of the information.

The pound quickly gave back most of its gains.

The UK is scheduled to leave the EU on March 29, but Prime Minister Theresa May has not yet secured parliamentary support for her divorce agreement, raising the prospect that the country could crash out of the trading bloc without a deal.

Businesses, investors and the Bank of England say that would spell disaster for the British economy and the global companies doing business there.

The core story for sterling remains the same: less Brexit is good, more Brexit is bad," said Ranko Berich, analyst at brokers Monex Europe.

6:46 a.m. ET, January 11, 2019

New charges against Carlos Ghosn

From CNN Business' Daniel Shane and Yoko Wakatsuki

The former Nissan chief remains stuck in jail after Tokyo prosecutors brought new charges of financial misconduct against him on Friday.

They allege he committed a breach of trust by transferring personal investment losses to the Japanese carmaker, and understated his personal income between 2015 and 2018.

The announcement came one day after Ghosn's wife Carole spoke out, saying that she was "fearful and very worried" for her husband's health after he developed a fever in jail.

Ghosn's legal team said Friday that they planned to apply for bail immediately.